Volume 18, Number 10 · June 1, 1972
A Great Mother's Helper
By Charles Rycroft
Playing and Reality
by D.W. Winnicott
Basic Books, 192 pp., $6.95
Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry
by D.W. Winnicott
Basic Books, 416 pp., $15.00
Although his ideas have as yet made little impact in the United States, D.W. Winnicott, who died early last year, was for the last fifteen to twenty years of his life by far the best known psychoanalyst in the British Isles. This was partly due to the mere fact of his being very English—to date most British analysts have been either émigré (Melanie Klein) or refugee (Anna Freud) Central Europeans, Scotsmen (Edward Glover and W.R.D. Fairbairn), or Welshmen (Ernest Jones). But the reason for his reputation also and more particularly was that he possessed to a remarkable degree the capacity for describing even highly sophisticated psychoanalytical ideas in simple, vivid, and homely language. As a result he was widely appreciated not only as a writer but also as a broad-caster and public speaker.
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